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← 247 Ga. App. 277 - Litland v. Smith

247 Ga. App. 277 - Litland v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · 229 Ga. App. 160 - Desai v. Silver Dollar City, Inc. · 239 Ga. App. 226 - Clark v. Cauthen · 204 Ga. App. 836 - Fuda v. Kroen · 108 Ga. App. 375 - Bearden v. EBCAP SUPPLY COMPANY

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In order for a promise to be considered an original undertaking, the new promisor, for valuable consideration, must substitute himself as the party who is to perform, and the original promisor must be released.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.